Warm and fuzzy T. rex? New evidence surprises

Xfinity ^ | 04/04/2012 | Alicia Chang

[SatinDoll]

LOS ANGELES — The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.

With a killer jaw and sharp claws, T. rex has long been depicted in movies and popular culture as having scaly skin. But the discovery of an earlier relative suggests the king of dinosaurs may have had a softer side.

The evidence comes from the unearthing of a new tyrannosaur species in northeastern China that lived 60 million years before T. rex. The fossil record preserved remains of fluffy down, making it the largest feathered dinosaur ever found.

If a T. rex relative had feathers, why not T. rex? Scientists said the evidence is trending in that direction.

[SatinDoll]

Oh, my.

By the time I finished this article, I had visions of T-Rex looking like a giant chicken!

[allmost]

They were probably warm blooded imo. The environmental variables required to maintain a reptile always seemed too perfect. This was a huge animal.

[GeronL]

lol.

[bcsco]

By the time I finished this article, I had visions of T-Rex looking like a giant chicken!

Well, it wasn't Chicken Little...

[Jonty30]

Dinosaurs had to be warm blooded.

If they were cold-blooded, by the time they would have warmed up enough to become mobile, it would have been nightfall again.

[count-your-change]

Chickasaurus, Found encrusted with eleven different substances as yet unidentfied. There may be a “kernal” of truth somewhere here, may be.

[allmost]

My thoughts as well.

[SatinDoll]

There is a book that examines the possible origins of these creatures, it’s called Out of Thin Air - Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere - by Peter D. Ward (2006; Joseph Henry Press).

Mr.Ward speculates on an oxygen crash as the cause of the Permian extinction and how dinosaurs had a respiratory system that differed from other creatures in that they could hoard oxygen in ‘bladders’ throughout their bodies.

Climbers on Mt.Everest have been surprised to discover upon reaching the summit, flocks of birds crossing over the mountain above them. Since the effort to fly uses huge amounts of oxygen, how can birds do that?

This book tries to answer the question.

[hosepipe]

On the other hand; this could all be bull sperm..
People looking to get pregnant with a givernment GRANT..

I wanna know where the third human on this planet came from..
If NOT from TWO other ones.. THEN a bodacious Yarn must be constructed..

I tend to like the other Yarn... the one where there was a society before the Adam and Eve thingy..
A society with dinos and other creatures and then all those folks self destructed.. with the creatures..

THEN the Adam & Eve Story developed as a metaphor as a start for the current self-destruction going on..

Heck it s a free country (so far) I can choose my own bull sperm..

[allmendream]

Who did the first speaker of Italian have to conserve with if everyone else on the peninsula spoke Latin?

When you realize why that isn't a good question you may realize why your own question has no basis in reality.

[Clint N. Suhks]

[SuzyQue]

Sort of a primordial Big Bird?

[allmost]

I'll have to find some cliff notes. I've flipped enough pages to circle the earth but everything’s online now. Got a link?

[BigEdLB]

[dirtboy]

By the time I finished this article, I had visions of T-Rex looking like a giant chicken!

The other white meat...

[null and void]

Yep.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[hosepipe]

[ Who did the first speaker of Italian have to conserve with if everyone else on the peninsula spoke Latin? ]

Italian evolved.. as did English.. actually all languages evolve..

Latin is not spoken nor is Elizabethan English.. Norman.. Saxon.. Jute.. or Frisian..

[katana]

Well, that's largely because T-Rex was what amounts to a giant carnivorous flightless bird sporting jaws big enough to swallow a man whole lined with six inch long razor sharp teeth. The hip structure, bi-pedalism, and size all scream warm blooded giant bird but, as is usual, once scientists get hold of and build their careers and tenure on a theory they will defend it to the death. That all the great dinosaurs were cold blooded reptiles, like basking crocodiles, is an archaic notion along the same lines as all the oil and natural gas beneath our feet is derived from fossilized flora and fauna and is therefore in severely limited supply.

The scientific community is like a priesthood, with all the stubborn orthodoxy and accusations of heresy when someone has the balls to think and argue differently that characterize that culture.